She ignored the child in a public place while it crawled on a probably dirty floor among strangers walking about who had to hopefully avoid stepping on her while trying not to spill hot coffee on same. I think that’s enough said.
And that’s all we know. That for the 30 minutes in Starbucks on that particular day, the daughter was ignored.
As for all the rest of her life, we don’t know. And I’m not going to accept the a total stranger’s assumptions on the parenting abilities of the mother without more proof.
Would you accept that sort of practice against you and your children?
Also, how many of us can say that we’ve never, EVER ignored a kid at any time? Even the best slip up once and a while.
Had this been about someone the author knew... I’d think differently. But this was a random stranger the guy saw once at a Starbucks.